NZXT Kraken x62 vs Corsair H115i thoughts

Hardware Cooling
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So I have had a h115i for about a year and a half just replaced it when the pump failed last night. When it was working it was keeping at load my Ryzen 7 1700 at approximately 70 degrees Celsius.

I was thinking about getting the Noctua NH D15S, which would keep it as cool if not cooler than a AIO. But what was on the website wasn’t on the box and I would have needed to purchase a bracket for it from their website. So that was out of the question unless I went a few days without a computer.

So I decided to purchase a NZXT brand asetek cooler instead of Corsair this time around. I had a h80 OG, and the pump on that failed and rmaed it and got a replacement and that pump too failed. So I got a h115i and that also failed. My NZXT keeps my cpu at load around 62 degrees Celsius.

So the NZXT is nearly 10 degrees cooler while looking sleeker. One thing I thought of to explain the discrepancy between the two AIOs, is that I mounted the Kraken to the front of my chassis and the H115i to the top. Anyways, I am happy with the Kraken so far and am wanting to just say I don’t think it is worth the premium of being 20 to 30 dollars more than the corsair offering. However, I heard somewhere it uses a custom pcb whereas corsair uses the asetek one. This might justify the premium price?

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This is almost certainly why you’re getting lower temperatures now, as the radiator is getting the coolest air possible instead of pulling GPU-warmed air from the case internally.

I ran an H100iV2 for a while and it worked very well, but replaced with a custom loop.

I would suspect the PCB is part of the cost. Are you using CAM to control fan curves, and if so, have they quit their datamining strategy yet?